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IP Law

Claws out as High Court rules on Tammy Taylor trade mark franchising dispute

Nishaat Slamdien 23 Jun 2025

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Tax Law

Landmark judgment rules crypto 'freely transferrable' - Sarb moves to block it

Bright Tibane, Andani Thovhakale and Tony Misago 13 Jun 2025

Blind SA went to the high courts in Pretoria and Pietermaritzburg to appoint curators for two special schools it says are failing to adequately provide for learners with disabilities. Illustration: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Primary & Secondary Education

Blind SA takes schools to court over conditions for children with disabilities

Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti 9 Jun 2025

The Constitutional Court has confirmed that a section of the law which automatically strips South Africans of citizenship if they take the citizenship of another country is invalid. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Constitutional Court rules on citizenship

Tania Broughton 7 May 2025

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Labour Law

Court battle looms over Employment Equity Act amendments

Hugo Pienaar, Asma Cachalia, and Alex van Greuning 5 May 2025

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Corporate & Commercial Law

KleuterZone controversy: What protection do investors, franchisees have under SA law?

Ian Jacobsberg 4 Apr 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

Measures to protect penguin populations now in place

25 Mar 2025

Conservationists argued that current no-fishing zones are inadequate to prevent the African Penguin’s extinction. Archive photo: John Yeld / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Settlement reached in African Penguin case

John Yeld 13 Mar 2025

Conservation groups want new “sweet spot” no-fishing zones around African Penguin breeding colonies, arguing current zones are inadequate to prevent the species’ extinction. Archive photo: John Yeld / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Major showdown in court over African Penguin’s future

John Yeld 17 Feb 2025

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Corporate & Commercial Law

Court rules on insurance case: No valid tracker? No valid claim

Mtho Maphumulo 14 Feb 2025

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Land & Property Law

Eviction of Khoi-San at Union Buildings an order of the High Court

10 Feb 2025

Regulations limiting the access to the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant have been found to be unconstitutional and invalid by the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Explosive court ruling on SRD grant

Marecia Damons 24 Jan 2025

Eight months after publishing its last report, the Office of the Chief Justice has finally released the new list of reserved judgments. The High Court in Pretoria had the highest number of late judgments, with 59 matters outstanding for longer than six months. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Law Practice

Hundreds of court judgments are late

Marecia Damons 19 Dec 2024

African Penguins at Boulders Beach in Cape Town. Archive photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Talks on penguin litigation fail to break deadlock

John Yeld 22 Oct 2024

African Penguins at Boulders Beach in Cape Town. Archive photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Former environment minister Creecy under fire from penguin conservation groups

John Yeld 1 Oct 2024

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HR Tools & Software

UIF announces extended operating hours

11 Sep 2024

Scores of people queued outside the labour office in Cape Town’s city centre on Wednesday. The UIF’s online portal has been offline for about three weeks. Photos: Mary-Anne Gontsana / GroundUp

HR Tools & Software

UIF online services frozen in court battle

Mary-Anne Gontsana 6 Sep 2024

Socal grant applicants queue at the Eerste River Sassa office. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Rules for R370-a-month social grant to be challenged in court in October

Marecia Damons 3 Sep 2024

Ethics & Medicolegal

Judge blocks government plan to tell private hospitals and doctors where they can go

Tania Broughton 25 Jul 2024

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Criminal Law

Ex-VBS Bank chair pleads guilty, gets 15 years

11 Jul 2024

Discovery Health says Road Accident Fund in breach of court order

Automotive

Discovery Health says Road Accident Fund in breach of court order

Tania Broughton 21 Jun 2024

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Immigration & Citizenship Law

ZEP holders rights upheld by ConCourt, Motsoaledi's appeal dismissed

19 Jun 2024

Mabola Protected Area in the Mpumalanga grasslands is under threat of coal mining. Archive photo: supplied

Environment & Natural Resources

Proposed coal mine in Mpumalanga grasslands back in court

John Yeld 2 May 2024

Banking

SA Post Office: Union deal halts layoffs at the 11th hour

Katja Hamilton 24 Apr 2024

Assaults on learners: Appeal court says tougher sanctions must apply to teachers

Primary & Secondary Education

Assaults on learners: Appeal court says tougher sanctions must apply to teachers

Tania Broughton 10 Apr 2024

African penguins, photographed here in Simon’s Town, could be extinct as soon as 2035, according to BirdLife South Africa and Sanccob (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). Photos: Dan Callister

Environment & Natural Resources

Minister’s plan could wipe out African penguins, say scientists

John Yeld 25 Mar 2024

Public Health

Anti-vaxxers thrashed in court

Tania Broughton 11 Mar 2024

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi has turned to the Constitutional Court in his bid to appeal against a Pretoria High Court judgment that found the process he used to end the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit programme was neither fair nor lawful. Archive photo: Tariro Washinyira / GroundUp

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Home Affairs minister takes Zimbabwean permit battle to the Constitutional Court

Tania Broughton 6 Mar 2024

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Food, Water & Energy Security

Why schools should be exempt from load shedding

26 Feb 2024

The Zimbabwean Exemption Permit programme will not end any time soon, following a Supreme Court of Appeal dismissal of the Minister of Home Affairs’ request for leave to appeal. Archive photo: Tariro Washinyira / GroundUp

Immigration & Citizenship Law

SCA dismisses bid to appeal Zim permits ruling

Tania Broughton 23 Feb 2024

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Criminal Law

Agrizzi to appear in Pretoria High Court

22 Feb 2024

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Legal

Musician Arthur Mafokate loses court battle

1 Feb 2024

About 700,000 IDs have been blocked by the Department of Home Affairs without due process. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Home Affairs may no longer block your ID on a whim, court rules

Tania Broughton 17 Jan 2024

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Immigration & Citizenship Law

Zimbabwe permit application dismissed: no need for it, say judges

Tania Broughton 8 Nov 2023

The Pretoria High Court will hear a matter this week in which Lawyers For Human Rights is representing more than 100 people who have fallen victim to Home Affairs’s “arbitrary” ID blocking practice. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks | GroundUp

Human Rights Law

Home Affairs taken to court over blocked IDs

Tania Broughton 18 Sep 2023

Doctor fails to block SIU from probing his Lottery connection

Corporate & Commercial Law

Doctor fails to block SIU from probing his Lottery connection

Tania Broughton 12 Sep 2023

HIV/AIDS

Landmark court approval for pharmacists to directly prescribe medicine to HIV patients

18 Aug 2023

President Ramaphosa has announced that people convicted of non-violent crimes will be released from South Africa’s overcrowded prisons. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Criminal Law

Thousands of non-violent offenders due for early release from prison

Ciaran Ryan 17 Aug 2023

Medical Aid

Board of Health Funders exposes transparency concerns in healthcare regulation

Katja Hamilton 8 Aug 2023

The Institute for Economic Justice and #PayTheGrants campaign have launched an application in the Pretoria High Court against what they say are exclusionary regulations for the R350 grant. Archive photo: Masego Mafata / GroundUp

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Conditions for R350-a-month grant to be challenged in court

Daniel Steyn 28 Jul 2023

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Tax Law

Sars wins critical court battle against business

26 Jul 2023

Court clamps down on the abuse of business rescue proceedings to avoid winding-up proceedings

Corporate & Commercial Law

Court clamps down on the abuse of business rescue proceedings to avoid winding-up proceedings

Megan Baker, Thys Scheepers & Adelin Dalais, Issued by Cox Yeats 26 Jul 2023

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Corporate & Commercial Law

SA Post Office enters business rescue

11 Jul 2023

South Africans who lost their citizenship after gaining citizenship of another country can once again obtain a South African passport. Photo: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Lost citizens welcomed back by Supreme Court of Appeal

Tania Broughton 15 Jun 2023

Litigants in the court case to stop the scrapping of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) have received threats on Twitter. Archive photo: Tariro Washinyira / GroundUp

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Twitter threats to litigants in Zimbabwean Exemption Permit court case

Ashraf Hendricks 18 Apr 2023

Nicolene Schoeman-Louw is a Dispute Resolution and Commercial Specialist at SchoemanLaw Inc.

Corporate & Commercial Law

Unpacking the 'contempt of court' process

Nicolene Schoeman-Louw 1 Feb 2023

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Covid-19

Anti-vax appeal - court asked to stop South Africa's Covid vaccination campaign pending an investigation

18 Jan 2023

NHI

NHI: Implementation headaches loom for health dept

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho 4 Jan 2023

The SCA on Tuesday rejected Siyangena Technologies’ appeal bid. Archive photo of Siyangena’s so-called “speed gates” at Cape Town Station. Photo: Kim Reynolds/GroundUp

Corporate & Commercial Law

Appeal court trashes Siyangena's R5.5bn appeal bid

Tania Broughton 2 Nov 2022

The Pretoria High Court judge who ruled against the publication of a report on a State Security Agency document has finally made her judgment public. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Law Practice

Judge makes U-turn on State Security Agency judgment

Tania Broughton 19 Oct 2022